How can I extend a wireless networks range?

Can someone tell me how I can extend the range of a wireless network's
range?

I assumed this is what access points are for?
But... apparently not?

Thanks.


OM

well,
depends.

Big arse antenna on each end does well, sometimes.

"OM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can someone tell me how I can extend the range of a wireless network's
> range?
>
> I assumed this is what access points are for?
> But... apparently not?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> OM
>

On 16 May 2005 15:45:59 -0700, "OM" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Can someone tell me how I can extend the range of a wireless network's
>range?
>
>I assumed this is what access points are for?
>But... apparently not?
>
>Thanks.

Make it line of sight with nothing in between the two points,
and/or add directional reflectors to the antennas and point them
towards each other.

bumtracks wrote:
> well,
> depends.
>
> Big arse antenna on each end does well, sometimes.
>

huh!!? what the ****?
lol.
i was expecting a few different answers to what i got!
surely there MUST be a bit of hardware that will sit in between a
router and a pc and by being there, extend the range of the router??

any more answers would be appreciated. : )


om

OM wrote:
> bumtracks wrote:
>
>>well,
>>depends.
>>
>>Big arse antenna on each end does well, sometimes.
>>
>
>
> huh!!? what the ****?
> lol.
> i was expecting a few different answers to what i got!
> surely there MUST be a bit of hardware that will sit in between a
> router and a pc and by being there, extend the range of the router??
>
> any more answers would be appreciated. : )
>
>
> om

Funny thing about Usenet, ask a question and you have no control over
the answers you get. You got two perfectly sensible answers. Maybe there
was some part of them that you didn't understand?

On 17 May 2005 17:58:33 -0700, "OM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>i was expecting a few different answers to what i got!
>surely there MUST be a bit of hardware that will sit in between a
>router and a pc and by being there, extend the range of the router??
>
>any more answers would be appreciated. : )

Methinks thou art lost. The CAT5 LAN cable that goes between the
router and the PC has nothing to do with the RF (wireless) range of
the system. That's controlled by the transmit power, receiver
sensitivity, coax losses, antenna gains, and modulation methods
(slower data goes farther).


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"Si Ballenger" <shb*NO*SPAM*@comporium.net> wrote in message
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> On 16 May 2005 15:45:59 -0700, "OM" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>Can someone tell me how I can extend the range of a wireless network's
>>range?
>>
>>I assumed this is what access points are for?
>>But... apparently not?
>>
>>Thanks.
>
> Make it line of sight with nothing in between the two points,
> and/or add directional reflectors to the antennas and point them
> towards each other.

Using a modified Pringles (potato based crisp) aluminium foil lined tube
with the wireless antenna mounted inside has produced some unexpectedly good
results of a highly directional nature (line of sight). There are a number
of articles on the Net on this. I was quite impressed by claims of over 5
miles being achieved between two LinkSys Wireless Access Points by two
Americans. I have two of these WAP's myself and they output a pretty
reasonable signal anyway just with the normal antennae. It's worth pigging
out on a couple of tubes of Pringles to try it out LOL

NickM <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Using a modified Pringles (potato based crisp) aluminium foil lined tube
> with the wireless antenna mounted inside has produced some unexpectedly
> good results of a highly directional nature (line of sight). There are a
> number of articles on the Net on this.

I think most of the current articles on the net discount the Pringles can,
and prefer a cantenna waveguide or parabolic reflector.

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html is one. O'Reilly has some.

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"OM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:1116283559.331397.26420
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> Can someone tell me how I can extend the range of a wireless network's
> range?
>
> I assumed this is what access points are for?
> But... apparently not?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> OM
>

2 different ways:

1) Wired access point run to the location where you aren't getting
signal.

2) Wireless signal repeaters if you are able to get any sort of signal
in the area.

1 is the ideal solution, and what I usually do for people looking to
improve the range of their wireless networks (especially over multiple
floors, etc.)

2 also works, but reduces speeds in the areas that are affected by the
signal repeater. Linksys' routers and access points can be set to act as
signal repeaters, for example.

> Can someone tell me how I can extend the range of a wireless network's
> range?
>
> I assumed this is what access points are for?
> But... apparently not?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> OM
>
You can try repeaters but I would stick to the same manufacturer type as
your AP. The resason being that until WDS came along it was a bit
proprietary.
I know the USR AP does it but then I have a USR AP as the main central AP

Tony